AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce 940M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1069 vs 506
Around 87% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 5982

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 13 March 2015
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 5982

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

506

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

5982

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce 940M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	506
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	5982
PassMark - G3D Mark		1127
PassMark - G2D Mark		154
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		25.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		168.449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		21.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		101.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM108
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	1317	1184
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Core clock speed		1072 MHz
Floating-point performance		903.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		28.22 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		33 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus